What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management menus

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Downside Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...